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...from. Obviously, competition would increase, and this is not usually an environment conducive to learning for the sheer value of learning--the university's highest function. Also, Harvard is not similar to high school, in which many disparate ability levels exist; here, all students fall within a very narrow band of ability--exceptional ability--and what is to differentiate one from another? Further, Harvard students deserve some kind of reward (a good grade) for their work, for however "average" it may be for Harvard, it certainly is not "average" for society...
...more optimistic about the outcome against Dartmouth, sophomore Joel Kirsch credits the less than perfect score to physical as well as emotional transition. "After the long drive up to Dartmouth, it's not that easy to get on court. Also, Dartmouth has wide courts (as opposed to the narrow hardball Harvard courts) and that makes a big difference...
OTTUMWA, IOWA: Watching his once-formidable lead narrow under the steady onslaught of Steve Forbes, Bob Dole has decided the high road is the best route in the final days before Monday's Iowa caucuses. Instead of attacking his opponents, Dole preached the virtues of experience and conservative leadership to a crowd of supporters in Ottumwa. On Thursday, his tracking polls showed his support hovering around 22 percent. A strong late push had Pat Buchanan tied with Steve Forbes at 16 percent, and Lamar Alexander was running fourth at 12. The big surprise of the week came from Buchanan...
...hatred of Madame, and seems willing to actually carry out the murder they continually plot; Solange wavers between resentment of Madame and fawning subservience. The one chance for the murder to come off seems to be ruined when Madame refuses the poisoned tea Claire offers her; this narrow escape leaves the sisters mired in their own hostility, and in the end it seems that one or the other of them will be forced to take Madame's place...
...dumping snow on his car, and the man fell and died. In New York, notwithstanding its recent rosy crime statistics, two men with a 9-mm pistol reportedly relieved Bronx building superintendent Robert DeJesus of his snowblower. But other city dwellers deferred elaborately to one another on narrow-shoveled walks. In Washington, Abby Stone and her two daughters made sandwiches all Monday morning and spent the afternoon delivering food and blankets to the homeless in their emerald-green Jeep Grand Cherokee...